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Bill cannot think of an activity that turns off more brain cells than tribal affiliation
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To explain this apocalyptic trend, Shellenberger borrows from The Denial of Death, a 1973 book by American anthropologist Ernest Becker (1924–1974). Fear of death, Becker wrote, is a core part of our subconscious. We realize our own mortality early in our lives and spend the later part dealing with it, often subconsciously. One way we deal with
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Antonia Malchik • True believers and mass movements
The Freudian aetiology that is typified by the trauma argument is determinism in a different form, and is the road to nihilism. Are you going to accept values like that?
Fumitake Koga • The Courage To Be Disliked: How to free yourself, change your life and achieve real happiness
to dispositionalism—a tendency to see people’s behavior as anchored in personal traits that influence their actions across many contexts.
Joseph Henrich • The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
The individual is a cell in the social superorganism. When he feels he is no longer necessary to the larger group, he, too, begins to wither away.
Howard Bloom • The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
Durkheim seemed to sense that beneath the surface, the suicide was destroying himself to rid the wider social group of a burden.
Howard Bloom • The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
An easy way to avoid the unpleasant feelings of cognitive dissonance is to not discuss our beliefs with contacts who disagree, or to cease socializing with them altogether. As a result, our social circles become more homogeneous, and beliefs our former peers might have considered extreme are no longer challenged by anyone important to us. None